Hyundai has unveiled the refreshed 2025 Hyundai Tucson at the New York International Auto Show, revealing revised styling inside and out, a variety of new infotainment and tech items, and more power for the hybrid powertrain options. The 2025 Hyundai Tucson is set to hit dealers this coming June, while 1.6L turbo hybrid and PHEV variants are slated to arrive late this summer. When it does arrive, the refreshed Tucson will rival the Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain.
Outside, the refreshed 2025 Hyundai Tucson shows off new styling front and back, as well as new alloy wheel designs. The grille and bumpers were all updated, as was the daytime running light signature. XRT variants feature new bridge-type raised roof side rails.
Meanwhile, the redesigned 2025 Hyundai Tucson interior features a panoramic curved display with an available 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and larger 12.3-inch infotainment display. Hyundai also redesigned the center stack with additional supplementary knobs and switchgear for things like audio volume and the HVAC controls.
Further updates include a new center console, steering wheel, dashboard tray, and door panel accents. Transmission controls are located on a column-mounted gear selector on premium models. Wireless device charging is on board as well. Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are both standard across the lineup.
As for what’s under the hood, the 2025 Hyundai Tucson cradles a 2.5L I4 gasoline engine as standard, with turbocharged 1.6L HEV and PHEV powertrains offered as optional. The 2.5L I4 gasoline engine is rated at 187 horsepower and 178 pound-feet of torque, mating to an eight-speed automatic transmission, while the hybrid is rated at 231 horsepower (up from 226 horsepower) and 258 pound-feet of torque, and the PHEV is rated at 268 horsepower (up from 261 horsepower) and 258 pound-feet of torque. Hybrid and PHEV variants equip all-wheel drive as standard.
For the sake of comparison, the all-new 2025 Chevy Equinox cradles the turbocharged 1.5L I4 LSD gasoline engine, which is rated at 175 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque in front-wheel drive models, and 203 pound-feet of torque in all-wheel drive models. The new Equinox does not offer a hybrid option, but Equinox and Terrain plug-in hybrid variants could eventually debut, as GM announced in January that it would reintroduce PHEVs in North America.
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Torque on the HEV isn’t accurate, it’s 258lbft combined, not 195. 195 is just the gas engine part of the equation. It is also more efficient than the 2024 model year.
GM F’d up trying to skip HEV and PHEV.
Thanks for calling out that torque figure. Post has been updated.
The Equinox and Forester both outsold this in Q1 2024. It’s loaded with cool features and has tons of cargo room…but I’m not sure I’d trust Hyundai enough with constant recalls and absurd pricing (with tiny discounts) to actually buy one. Hyundai/Kia are way too full of themselves.
Hyundai never met an incongruent angle it didn’t throw on a car. Hideous, overwrought sculpting on the sides, overly-busy front end and “stolen-from-the-Mustang” rear. The interior looks like a Rubbermaid product demonstration. Should sell like crazy. KIA’s designs look so much better, hard to believe they’re the same company.
One of their officers (I think it was the CEO) said they did studies and discovered car makers weren’t using triangles, so they decided to embrace it.
KIA is only partly owned by Hyundai and they are part of an auto “group”. They share engines and platforms, but they aren’t really the same company.
Kia and Hyundai Motor Group operate independently, but Hyundai is the parent company of Kia Motors.
Hyundai was on a roll for a while but has definitely gone downhill the past 3 to 4 years. From the 2.0/2.4 GDI engine failures and dry clutch transmission issues to lots of defects and recalls to oddball styling cues on there current crop of ICE vehicles that are trying to look like EV’s. The new 2024 Sante Fe is a mess looking like a reject design for a Ford Flex. Kia definately has the better looking designs.
lol the 2024 Santa Fe IS going to be a huge sales success for them. You are the minority.
Time will tell. People’s taste is all over the map these days. Even the barbarian Cybertruck is popular at the moment but let’s see how these polarizing designs fare once the hype dies down. Have yet to hear anybody say they like this new box design which seems to be going backwards
No one except every single review and video. And the fact they are sold out with wait lists. Just saying. There is 1.6T PHEV coming next year with an expected all electric range of 62 miles
Sold out. Well that isn’t hard since so few have been produced this far. Even though they are supposedly sold out I personally saw 4 sitting at my local Hyundai dealer with no sold signs this past weekend so apparently they aren’t all sold out and production is slowly creeping up. And who cares what a few Youtube reviews are saying .They like everything that comes out that is new and dorky looking. I go by what actual consumers are saying and so far everybody I have shown this to hates the exterior styling.
There’s only 78 nationwide currently that aren’t sold, with 2024 HEV orders piling up. There are 15,000 (fifteen thousand) 2024 Blazers sitting on lots.